The Cinematics - A Strange Education (OUT NOW!)
Feb 28, 2007 2:48:40 GMT -5
Post by oscillations. on Feb 28, 2007 2:48:40 GMT -5
There's surprisinly not much online hype for this largely anticipated debut album from Glasgow act The Cinematics, but they've had enormous critical buzz from the print media, and have been garnering rave reviews for their Smiths meets Echo & The Bunnymen sound. You can try to place them on the pantheon of other angular pop artists from the UK, but if you actively listen to their music, you'll see their muse is a much darker, literate one.
I urge you to check them out.
[url=http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Education-Cinematics/dp/B000M5AJUO[/url]Pre-order their album now![/url]
TOUR DATES
Check them out on their first North American tour - they will be supporting Mute Math & Somebody Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin.
Editorial Reviews & PR:
NME, November 2005
"Besides having the best voice we've heard...lead singer Scott looks better than Tom Cruise and drinks better than Christian Slater."[/b]
The Fly, March 2006
"The Cinematics are going to be a phenomenon." [/b]
New York Post, October 31, 2006
"Who not to miss at the CMJ Music Fest." [/b]
About the Artist
SCOTT RINNING (Vocals/Guitar), RAMSAY MILLER (Lead Guitar), ADAM GOEMANS (Bass), ROSS BONNEY (Drums)
The Glasgow four piece beat combo The Cinematics are an intriguing gang of young boys with an eye on some fairly serious goals. With influences ranging from The Cure, Television, Magazine, Wire, The Smashing Pumpkins to Talking Heads, The Smiths and Jeff Buckley, the band have a diverse taste in music which in turn makes their sound interesting, but easily accessible.
Since moving to Glasgow, the band have settled into the regime of what they do best - making melodic guitar music of the emotional variety. The meeting and forming of The Cinematics is not a story of chance, like answering an ad for a singer and drummer wanted for some college band shenanigans, but a story of predetermined fate. It's a tale of four boys growing up in a place where livestock numbers outnumber the people by 20-to-1 and where accordion based folk music rules.
Ah yes, the Highlands of Scotland is a beautiful place where hunting, fishing, hillwalking and other wholesome outdoor activities are at your finger tips, but when you grow tired of killing, fishing and walking, what do you do? Well, you listen to your parents, friends and relatives' music collection, buy some cheap guitars and amps with money saved from your grouse beating/ tree planting job and take up camp in someone's garage. At least, that's what The Cinematics did.
When they were old enough to realise that playing music was more fun than receiving head wounds from playing shinty, they began trying to convince their friends that playing the bass was easy to learn and that their neighbours wouldn't mind listening to dodgy versions of Talking Heads and Clash covers, 5 hours a day. Thankfully both turned out to be true and in the early years of their teens, Scott and Ross were in one band and Ramsay and Adam were in another. A couple of years on when both bands began to falter and split, it seemed inevitable that the members would come together to form a band. After a chance meeting in Glasgow where Scott lived and the others had just moved -- Ramsay and Adam met Scott while he was busking for meal money on the street -- they decided to take up arms against the world and The Cinematics were born. So the shotgun and fishing tackle were laid to rest and replaced with Fender guitars.
Immediately there was a sense of greater purpose than they had previously known and very quickly, a sound of Buckley meets Byrne meets Ian MacCulloch, with jaggy guitars, developed into a sound which became too good to resist.
After 2 years of trying and failing to go to work and college and in between practicing, gigging and partying, the band have now signed a deal with the good people of TVT Records and are taking their music into the wider world for all to hear.
The Cinematics have several acclaimed singles out in the UK, provided live support over there for the likes of Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, The Editors, We Are Scientists and label mates Ambulance LTD and are now set to tour America in March, 2007 opening for Mute Math to coincide with the release of their debut cd, "Strange Education." Now the rest of the USA can discover what OK Go fans saw in at a Boston holiday show in '06--that The Cinematics are among the tightest, sharpest new live acts to have emerged from the UK rock scene in many, many years.
Amazon.com Product Description
(actually fairly accurate, IMO, so I'll let them do my speaking).
"The sound of rainbows bursting through the tarmac of the big city." This is how NME described the sound of Scottish foursome the Cinematics. Like so many of the current crop of 80's influenced UK acts, the band elicits the cold, grey, stark and sometimes austere side of life in the North. Powered by tight grooves that demand movement and passionate, powerful and thoughtful vocals, the Cinematics also bring emotion and warmth. The end result is music that transcends any trends or underground niche.
Their debut album, "A Strange Education," is a stunning collection of dance-punk grooves and guitar interplay with lead vocalist Scott Rinning's ardent vocal delivery. Even in his early twenties, Rinning's voice reveals a power and gravity well beyond his years. The Cinematics' singles, "Break," and "Keep Forgetting," each find a place that resonates in your heart and in your mind. The stirring "Human" is one of those special songs that sends chills up your spine.
Already too "big" sounding for the small club stages they've been playing in America up to this point, the Cinematics live show is flawless. Powerful, tight and often inspirational, a Cinematics show reminds you of those special times when you saw legendary acts before the rest of the world.
The current single "Break" will be followed by "Keep Forgetting" and its brilliant video which captures the band in a modern version of classic French New Wave Cinema. "A Strange Education" cd will contain both of these songs' accompanying videos, as well as two additional live videoclips of the band performing on Dutch TV show "London Calling." The band is touring with Mute Math from March through May.
